Why is it so Easy to Dupe People of the Christian Faith?

What The Hell Happened To The People of The Christian Faith?
"The Lord is telling me that He's calling 120 readers of this article to sow $120.00 and in 120 days they will receive my 120, 120, 120 blessing! I can feel the anointing, can't you?! If you sow RIGHT NOW, I will send you my miracle "Anointed Oil from the Mount of Olives" Yes, my brother and sisters, this anointing oil comes straight from Jerusalem and it's sure to bless your: home, finances, job, health, kids, career and marriage. I've prayed over this Holy oil and the Lord told me He was going to work MIRACLES for EVERYONE who receives it!

You say, "But Pastor Prosperity, I don't have $120.00; I'm collecting unemployment, my debts just keep piling up and if God doesn't come through in two weeks, my car is going to be repossessed!" Beloved, to prove you have strong Christian Faith, you must act, because faith without works is dead! If you put this $120.00 on your credit card God is going to move mightily on your behalf, hallelujah!"

How many of you would bet, that if Associated Content allowed it, people of the Christian Faith would plop down that $120.00? I guarantee they would! As a matter of fact, probably by the thousands! That's why people are asking, "What the hell happened to the Christian faith?" To be clear, this article is not about attacking any certain minister. Neither is it about attacking Christianity. It is about asking the question and starting a nationwide dialogue about why Christians are so easily duped.

The Christian Faith, Rappers and "I Get Money!"
These days, the Hip Hop phrase bodaciously espoused by many big time rappers, "I Get Money" can undeniably be attributed as the new mantra of prosperity preachers of the Christian Faith. Recently, I was viewing a broadcast in which a well-known tele-evangelist stopped in midstream while preaching and said, "God is telling me that He is calling twelve people to sow $1000." No soon as he had finished making that statement, a number of people in the congregation ran to the pulpit to sow their $1000.00.

He told the people to make checks payable to him? I thought that was real odd, but nevertheless, the parishioners gave anyway believing they were increasing their Christian Faith by giving to his ministry. Pay to increase your faith? Pay to receive a blessing? Pay to get healed? Pay to get your marriage restored? C'mon people of the Christian faith! How come people in the secular world can see right through these pimps in the pulpits but Believers are constantly mesmerized by their antics?

Around eleven months later, this same highly revered and purportedly anointed Man of God was arrested for molesting two teenage girls (ages 14 and 15) during one of his crusades. He paid them to have sex and got caught when people from the community saw him take the teen girls to a hotel; they knew that was suspicious and called the police.

Here's the kicker and you knew this was coming; immediately after his arrest, many people of the Christian Faith vehemently came to this pastor's defense? What? Are you kidding me? Say it isn't so! I wish that it wasn't so, but they came to his defense just as they came to the defense of: Robert Tilton, Jimmy Swaggart, Bishop Clarence McClendon, Peter Popoff, Earl Paulk, Larry Lea, Bishop Thomas Weeks III and Roberts Liardon.

Touch Not My Anointed - The Get Out of Jail Card For Ministers?
Anytime a minister of the Christian Faith gets caught with his pants down or with his hands in the cookie jar, invariably, the astonishing response from most parishioners is almost always, "Be careful that you don't touch God's anointed!" It's almost if they feel God is going to strike them with an illness or a financial calamity or even death if they say anything against known, "Pastoral Perpetrators."

Many ministers have been very adept at systematically conditioning followers of the Christian Faith to revere and worship those in the pulpit and somehow see pulpiteers as being immune from obeying the laws of the land and immune from obeying the Written Word of God.

Only God Can Judge Anointed Men and Women of God?
It has become a common trend for a minister to commit a gross sexual sin or a punishable crime, get caught and the emphatic unwavering position of his followers becomes, "Only God can judge a man of God! With that holier than thou utterance, they quickly close ranks and maintain a heavy impenetrable wall of silence that certain ministers of the Christian Faith have hidden behind while doing "dirt" for ages. One couple that knew their pastor was having an adulterous affair with the choir director said they never said a word because it was up to God to deal with him. Uh, maybe we need to remind followers of the Christian Faith to read the part of the Bible where Jesus said," Let no man deceive you..."